-----------hardcover, about 12w x 10h inches, a Near Fine eample, in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket, looks new, 192 pages, packed with colour and b&w images, endpapers are a map of Canada taken from the 1906 ATLAS of CANADA showing rail lines across Canada, ---"Within decades of the building of Canada's first trains in the nineteenth century, the railways entered their ""Golden Age"" when train journeys around the country were an exciting adventure, and when trade and immigration began to flow along the rails. A book for everyone interested in railway history, the de...View More...

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket, 467 pages, b&w photos, ---" This extraordinary biography explores the brilliant mind of an eccentric, obsessive man. There can scarcely be a reader who has not heard of the inventor of the telephone. Yet this invention was only one of the many ideas that Alexander Graham Bell developed into fascinating new theories and technologies. --Bell investigated how to transmit speech along light waves, how to distill fresh water from sea-water, and how to reinflate collapsed lungs by means of an early version of an iron lung. In Was...View More...

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine example in a Near Fine dustjacket, signed without inscription by Gray, 438 pages, b&w photos, ---"Why does this exotic woman, the 19th-century daughter of a Mohawk chief and an English gentlewoman, continue to haunt and inform our collective imagination? --Charlotte Gray conjures up the magic and the myth of the poet and performer, breathing Technicolor life into one of Canada’s most exciting -and often misunderstood -historical figures. Pauline was a woman of many selves and identities both Mohawk and English: a native advocate who captivated white audi...View More...

------------softcover, about 10w x 10h inches, a Near Fine example, looks new, likely ubnread, 286 pages, colour photos throughout, ---"Iconic photos from the First World War, newly colourized. --See seminal images of Canada’s First World War experience in a new light - offered in full colour for the first time - with contributions from Margaret Atwood, Tim, Cook, Charlotte Gray, Paul Gross, Peter Mansbridge, and many others. --Canadians today see the First World War largely through black and white photography. Colourizing these images brings a new focus to our understanding and appreci...View More...